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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] rtnetlink: Fix problem with buffer allocation
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From: "Rose, Gregory V" <gregory.v.rose@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 19:07:15 +0000

> OK, sounds good.  How about I also add a field to indicate the
> application buffer size?

How can this help, we already have it.  It's the length field to
the recvmsg() call.

Also, either the user provided a large enough buffer or he didn't.  If
he didn't we return an error to the recvmsg() call, and the user can
increase the buffer size and try again.